I was born, by
misshap, in Germany when Hitler came to power. I was supposed to come
forth in Brno, Tzechoslovakia, but my parents on their way home from
France were stopped in Germany, because of my mother´s Jewish family name
(Süss). Thanks to Hitler I did not grow up to become a Communist but a
German. I developped a keen interest for foreign languages already as a
child. So at high-school my favorite subjects were Latin & English – and
also Chemistry&Physics. The latter subjects and a strong interest for R&D
lead to my professions: I became a chemical engineer, and after my
emigration 1960 to Sweden, for a decade, an academically trained
scientist in Thermochemistry and Chemical Thermodynamics (PhD). I got
married with a nice Swedish woman, we have three splendid children. For
two decades I did industrial R&D-work (solar energy applications and, in
particular, chemical heat-pumping). All along I also studied languages:
privately French, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish, academically Slavic
languages (Russian etc.). In the best of my time I spoke fluently six
languages. When economics in Sweden went down I retired when I was sixty
(1991). Then I spent a lot of time and money with scuba diving, sailing,
golfing, gardening, but also solving chess problems and finding
correlations between the structure of organic molecules and their
properties etc. Now I live with my (new) wife Monica in a small
fishermen´s village at the coast of the Baltic Sea. Only lately I have
detected the fun of prime problems, but I´m more interested in theoretical
aspects than in record hunting.